1. Post‑Scarcity Removes the Rationale for Governance

- Historical governance justified by managing scarcity (Hobbes; Scott, Against the Grain).

- Technological abundance dissolves these constraints (Fuller; Rifkin; Drexler; Sen).

- Institutions built for rationing become pathological when scarcity ends (Polanyi; Graeber).

2. The Global Maxima of Allowable Freedom

- Freedom bounded only by physics, coordination, and harm (Mill’s harm principle).

- Post‑scarcity enables the highest feasible autonomy (Sen & Nussbaum’s capability theory).

- Goal: maximize human self‑authorship, not institutional control.

3. The Global Minima of Rulemaking

- Minimal rules required for safety and coordination (Ostrom’s decentralized governance).

- Bureaucratic expansion is a product of scarcity, not necessity (Weber; Graeber).

- In abundance, most rulemaking becomes coercive overhead.

4. Education as Autonomy Engineering

- Traditional schooling reproduces hierarchy (Bourdieu; Collins; Illich).

- Post‑scarcity requires epistemic sovereignty and self‑direction (Freire; Papert).

- Education shifts from compliance training to capability development.

5. The End of Institutional Scarcity

- Institutions ration resources, knowledge, legitimacy (Foucault; Coase).

- AI, automation, and open systems eliminate these bottlenecks (Bostrom; Benkler).

- Institutions become the primary generators of artificial scarcity.

6. Hard‑Science Futurism Reinterpreted

- Orion’s Arm–style civilizations assume governance by superintelligences.

- Alternative view: advanced intelligence dissolves coercion, not optimizes it (Good; Tegmark).

- Complexity management becomes non‑coercive infrastructure.

7. The Long Arc Toward Self‑Authorship

- Civilization evolves from survival → scarcity management → autonomy (Maslow; Fuller).

- Post‑scarcity’s purpose is the full development of human potential in its richest diversity.

- The endpoint is not better institutions — it is fewer institutions.